Clothes-drying rack.



R. G. BDEHME.

CLOTHES DRYING RAGK..

APPLICATION FILED MAILZB, 1913.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914.,

Cutoff/nw RAYMOND e. BOEHME, or NEWPORT, KENTUCKY. f

GLOTHES-DRYING RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led March 28, 1913.

Patented Mar. 2a, 1914.. Serial No. 757,412.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RAYMOND G. BOEHME, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes- Drying Racks, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention provides a rack designed most especially for receiving articles such as towels, napkins and clothing to be aired or dried, said rack being foldable and supported in a manner to be easily and quickly placed in position or removed so as to be out of the way when not required for present use.

Specifically considered the invention provides a rack adapted for heating stoves so that the heat from the stove may be utilized for quickly drying the articles suspended from the rack to have the moisture driven oft'.

The invention consists of the novel features, details of construction and combination of parts, which hereinafter will be more particularly set fort-h, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the appended claim.

Referring to the drawing, forming a part of the specification, Figure 1 is a side view of the upper portion of a range provided with a rack embodying the invention, the dotted lines showing the position of the arms or supporting bars when turned into vertical position. Fig. 2 is a top plan View of the parts shown in Fig. 1, parts being broken away. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of an arm or supporting bar.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description, and indicated in all the views of the drawing, by the same reference characters.

The numeral 1 designates the warming oven of a range or stove which forms a support for the rack and which maybe of any design. A number of eye bolts 2 are secured to the stove or support l and receive a rod 3. The rod 3 is located at the back of the stove a short distance from the top thereof, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 1. The rod 3 is slipped into the eye bolts 2, thereby admitting of the rack being quickly placed in position or removed as required.

be withdrawn from the eye bolts,

The numeral 4 designates the arms or bars of t-he rack, each of such arms having an eye bolt 5 to receive the rod 3. Each arm has a portion Ginear the eye 5 bent about at a right angle to extendr along the rear side of the upper portion of the stove or support 1, the bent part 6 being of a length to admit of the arm 4 resting upon the top of the stove or support so as to be held approximately in horizontal position thereby. An extension 7 projects from the eye 5 in an opposite direction to the main portion of the arm 4. When the arm 4L is moved into upright position, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, the extension engages the backof the stove or support l and forms a stop to hold the arm or rack bar in vertical position. The arms or rack bars adjacent the stove pipe or collar are bent laterally in opposite directions, as indicated at 8, so as to clear the sto-ve pipe or collar and thereby admit of the arms or rack bars being equally space When adapting the invention to stoves or kitchen ranges the back thereof is bored to receive the eye bolts 2 which are secured in the openings by means of nuts and washers. After the eye bolts have been placed in position the rod 3 is slipped through the eyes of such bolts'and such rod is also passed through the eyes 5 of the rack arms or bars. When the arms are in position to receive articles to be aired or dried they rest upon the top of the stove or support, as indicated by the full lines in Fig. 1, but when the rack is not in use the arms may be thrown upward out of the way, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. If preferred the rod 3 may thereby admitting of the rack arms or bar being laid aside until required for use.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, and while I have described the principle of operation of the invention, together with the device which I now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative, and

that such changes may loe niade'when de` parallel with the rack and adapted to engage 10 sired as are within the scope of the claim the side of the support to hold the rack appended hereto. p when in upright position.

Having thus described the invention what In testimony whereof I aix my signature 5 is claimed as new, is in presence of two witnesses. In combination with a support, a rack piv- RAYMOND G. BOEI'IME.

oted thereto below the top and at one side Witnesses: thereof with the main part normally resting GAROLYN E. ZIMMERMAN, across the support and with a rear extension GUsTAvE A. ZIMMERMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

